GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208
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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (25-23, 54-64) vs. Chattanooga Lookouts (20-28, 56-61) RHP Ian Anderson (0-0, --) vs. RHP Tyler Wells (0-1. 0.90) Game #119 • Home #60 (29-30) • 2nd Half #49 August 14, 2018 •7:00 pm (CT) • Pearl, MS • Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves open their 13th homestand of the season on Tuesday night with the first of a five-game series with the Chattanooga Lookouts (MIN) at Trustmark Park. Record Breakdown • The M-Braves are 2-3 against the Lookouts this season and 74-85 all-time, 36-40 all-time at Score First ............................................. 41-13 Opponents Score First ...........................12-52 Trustmark Park. Chattanooga took three of five from Mississippi in Chattanooga, August 2-6. This Shutouts ................................................. 9-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................8-22 is the first series between the clubs at Trustmark Park since a six-game set, June 28-July 3, 2017. Score in 2 innings ................................. 14-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................17-12 The M-Braves were 2-9 against Chattanooga in 2017. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 8-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................7-1 • Atlanta Braves No. 3 overall prospect Ian Anderson makes his Double-A debut today. Over his final six starts for Florida, Anderson posted a 0.77 ERA with 16 hits, nine walks and 42 strike- Leading after 6 innings ........................... 40-8 Leading after 7 innings ............................41-6 outs in 35 IP. He allowed two home runs in 100, or two home runs in 414 batters faced. Tied after 6 innings .................................. 9-7 Tied after 7 innings ...................................8-9 • The M-Braves are in a stretch of playing American League style baseball in 30 of 35 games. Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 4-49 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-45 • Mississippi is coming off of a 4-5 road trip to Chattanooga and Jacksonville. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 41-3 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-35 LAST TIME OUT: Sunday afternoon’s series finale between the M-Braves and Jumbo Shrimp was Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ..............................................9-8 postponed by rain. The series finished in a four-game split with Sunday’s rubber match being Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-49 Score 4 or More Runs ............................36-16 washed out. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader when Mississippi returns to Jacksonville for the final series of the season. First Game of Series ............................. 11-13 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 11-11/3-6 First Game of Homestand ........................ 4-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................5-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-6 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-5 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.05 ERA (103 ER/304.1 IP) with 316 strikeouts and just 104 walks over the past 56 games (28-28 record) with 28 quality starts dating back to June Following an Off Day ................................ 2-6 1-Run Games .........................................11-19 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.35/9IP ratio. Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-5 2-Run Games ...........................................11-6 I Errorless Games ................................... 25-19 3-Run Games ...........................................10-8 POWER SURGE: The M-Braves have hit eight home runs over the last four games and have 11 With a Homer....................................... 32-20 Allow a Homer ......................................17-32 home runs in 10 games during the month of August, ranking second behind only Birmingham (12) With No Homers .................................. 22-44 Allow No Homers ..................................34-35 in the Southern League this month. Overall this season, Mississippi is last in the Southern League with 70 home runs. Jackson ranks 9th with 72 long balls. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 8-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................43-53 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 46-56 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................11-11 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: LF Travis Demeritte recorded the first five-run game for Missis- Following a Win ................................... 22-31 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................8-24 sippi since Luis Bolivar scored five runs on April 18, 2010 at West Tenn on August 9 at Jacksonville. Following a Loss ................................... 32-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................46-40 Demeritte has three home runs and eight total runs scored over his last three games. His multi- In Decision By Starters ......................... 32-41 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................22-22 homer game on on August 9 was the ninth of his career and first this season. Demeritte had two multi-homer games for Mississippi in 2017, on August 2 at Mobile, and June 3 at Jackson, TN. Demeritte had five two-homer games in 2016 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organi- Daily & Monthly Breakdown zation. Demeritte leads the club in runs (60), extra-base hits (37), home runs (15), RBI (54), total Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total bases (150), games (109) and walks (52). Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 Tuesday 3-5 3-2 6-7 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 WELCOME BACK CONNOR LIEN: Since returning from the DL on Friday, OF Connor Lien is Wednesday 3-4 2-7 5-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 3-for-7 with three home runs and four RBI, including the second multi-homer game of his career Thursday 5-5 4-5 9-10 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 on August 10 at Jacksonville. Friday 3-7 2-6 5-13 August 1-0 4-5 5-5 Saturday 8-0 6-5 14-5 September - - - THE YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Pache, the Sunday 4-3 5-4 9-6 Postseason - - - Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipeline has hit in Total 29-30 25-34 54-64 29-30 25-34 54-64 seven of his first 10 Mississippi games (five multi-hit). He is batting .317 (13-for-41) with a double, triple, two RBI and four runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until November 19. M-Braves vs Lookouts REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 26 of 28 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .318 (28-for-88) with a .396 at Trustmark Park 1-2 2-3 2-2 9-5 5-0 1-4 1-4 on-base percentage. Didder reached base safely in his first 15 games with Mississippi. at Chattanooga 4-4 4-1 2-8 2-3 3-7 3-2 2-3 Total 5-6 6-4 4-10 11-8 8-7 4-6 3-7 10 MLB DEBUTS BY M-BRAVES ALUMNI IN 2018: RHP Touki Toussaint pitched 6.0 innings of one-run baseball in game one of Monday’s doubleheader against Miami, earning the win. 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 He becomes the 139th M-Braves alum and 10th this season to move on and make their MLB at Trustmark Park 1-8 4-1 3-2 4-1 3-2 0-6 0-0 debut. Toussaint joins RHP Chad Sobotka (August 11), RHP Wes Parsons (August 9), LHP Adam at Chattanooga 2-3 2-3 3-2 4-1 3-2 2-3 2-3 McCreery (August 9), LHP Kolby Allard (July 31) C Willians Astudillo (June 30, Twins) OF Dustin Total 3-11 6-4 6-4 8-2 6-4 2-9 2-3 Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 139 players, have gone on to make their Alltime MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. OF Michael Reed had previously made his MLB at Trustmark Park 36-40 debut for Milwaukee, but made his debut with Atlanta after opening the 2018 season in Mis- at Chattanooga 38-45 sissippi on July 23. Total 74-85 ROSTER FEATURES SEVEN TOP 30 PROSPECTS: The Mississippi Braves now feature seven of the Atlanta Braves Top 30 prospects and two Top 100 MLB Prospects according to MLB Pipeline’s July 26 update. RHP Ian Anderson (#3 and #39 in all of MLB), OF Cristian Pache (#5 and #58 in all of M-Braves vs Lookouts Day-by-Day MLB), LHP Kyle Muller (#11), LHP Thomas Burrows (#20), OF Travis Demeritte (#23), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (#27) and RHP Josh Graham (#29) are among Atlanta’s Top 30 prospects. Date Result Record W-L-S Att M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 9th in the SL with a 8/2 L, 12-3 0-1 Thorpe-Leyva 1,750 .271 batting average. INFAlejandro Salazar leads the league in sacrifice hits (7). 8/3 L, 6-1 0-2 Enns-Mader-Wells 4,318 Southern League Standings 8/4 W, 6-2 1-2 Franco-Bencomo 6,387 SOUTH REC GB MTG (TB) 29-20 - On the Web 8/5 L, 9-2 1-3 Poppen-Pike 1,910 JXN (ARI) 24-25 5.0 BIR (CHW) 24-26 5.5 8/6 W, 9-4 2-3 Muller-Alcala 1,567 TNS (CHC) 23-25 5.5 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 20-28 8.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 8/14 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 8/15 PNS (CIN) 31-18 - player and the organization overall.